{"id":343515,"date":"2020-03-26T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343515"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:21:58","slug":"covid-19-may-impact-indias-coal-fuelled-power-plants-using-chinese-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-may-impact-indias-coal-fuelled-power-plants-using-chinese-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 may impact India\u2019s coal-fuelled power plants using Chinese equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 outbreak has now cast doubts over a part of India\u2019s conventional electricity generation space, with around 90 giga watt (GW) coal-fuelled capacity based on Chinese power generation equipment.<\/p>\n<p>With supply chains being disrupted, this installed and under-construction capacity has been placed with Chinese manufacturers such as Dongfang Electric, Shanghai Electric and Harbin Power. Mint earlier reported about concerns over Chinese equipment and their operation and maintenance, given the strategic importance of such power projects.<\/p>\n<p>This comes in the backdrop of India\u2019s domestic power demand, expected to go up with more people staying indoors, given the three-week nationwide lockdown from midnight Tuesday, in the world\u2019s largest such exercise aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 outbreak has now cast doubts over a part of India\u2019s conventional electricity generation space, with around 90 giga watt (GW) coal-fuelled capacity based on Chinese power generation equipment. With supply chains being disrupted, this installed and under-construction capacity has been placed with Chinese manufacturers such as Dongfang Electric, Shanghai Electric and Harbin Power. Mint earlier reported about concerns over Chinese equipment and their operation and maintenance, given the strategic importance of such power projects. This comes in the backdrop of India\u2019s domestic power demand, expected to go up with more people staying indoors, given the three-week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}